13x03 - A Marathon Rivalry!

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NARRATOR: With the opportunity for Dawn to win her

all-important fifth contest ribbon luring them on, we once

again join our heroes on their trip to Daybreak Town!

DAWN, ASH, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

ASH: Whoa, what's that?

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

BROCK: Looks like a trampoline!

PIPLUP: [HAPPY]

PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [PLAYFUL]

DAWN: But what in the world is a

trampoline doing out here in the forest?

SNORLAX: [PLAYFUL]

PIKACHU, PIPLUP: [SCARED]

ASH: Hold on, Pikachu, I'll catch you!

PIKACHU: [RELIEVED]

DAWN: Here, Piplup! PIPLUP: [RELIEVED]

SNORLAX: [PLAYFUL]

DAWN: Snorlax?

POKEDEX: Snorlax. The Sleeping Pokémon. Snorlax becomes much

too lazy to lift even a finger when it has a full belly, which

then makes it safe to bounce upon.

DAWN: It sure can move for being so big!

BROCK: Yeah! I'll bet Snorlax works out a lot!

DANIEL: Excellent! You've improved your response time by a

whole fifteen percent!

ASH: Uh, who are you?

DANIEL: Who am I? My name's Daniel,

scientist extraordinaire and genius!

DAWN: Humble, too.

DANIEL: And you are?

ASH: Hi! I'm Ash!

DAWN: I'm Dawn!

BROCK: And my name's Brock!

Is that your Snorlax? You raised it really well!

DANIEL: Well, of course! What did you expect? My Pokémon are

raised using only the choicest of scientific training methods!

ASH, DAWN, BROCK: Scientific training?

It's about you It's about me

It's about hope It's about dreams

It's about friends that work together

To claim their destiny

It's about reaching for the skies

Pokemon!

Given the courage And willing to try

It's about never giving up So hold your head up

And we will carry on... Sinnoh league victors

Pokemon!

DANIEL: You're now standing in my training facility!

ASH: Whoa.

DANIEL: And this is where the scientific training

I alluded to takes place!

DANIEL: To improve the skillfulness of my Pokémon!

DAWN, ASH, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [CONFUSED]

ASH: Blindfold?

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

DAWN: Wonder what he's up to now?

DANIEL: This exercise increases the level of synchronization

between Pokémon and Trainer!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

DAWN, ASH, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

DANIEL, SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

DAWN, ASH, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SHOCKED]

DANIEL, SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

ASH: Wow! It's jumping even with a blindfold on!

PIKACHU: [AMAZED]

DANIEL: Good! Our level of synchronization has increased by

more than ten percent!

BROCK: I see! This really is scientific!

ASH: That's cool, but Pikachu and I don't need any of that

fancy technology to know our hearts are connected!

Right, buddy?

PIKACHU: [AGREEMENT]

DANIEL: Well, that's way too abstract for me! Snorlax and I

are connected by the power of provable science!

ASH: So why don't we have a battle to see whose hearts are

more connected? Let's do it right now!

- DANIEL: A battle? - ASH: What's so funny?

DANIEL: It is impossible to compare something like the level

of synchronization by having a battle!

ASH: Oh yeah?

DANIEL: But I do know the perfect competition. One that

tests synchronicity, but also speed, jumping ability,

and skill, stamina, and power!

And it tests for every one of them at the very same time!

DAWN, ASH, BROCK, PIPLUP, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

DANIEL: Behold! Pokéathlon!

DAWN: Pokéathlon? Never heard of it!

DANIEL: Then prepare to be educated!

DANIEL: The very first Pokéathlon was held in Johto,

and is comprised of a total of ten events, three events of

which are randomly chosen every time the Pokéathlon is held.

The rules explicitly state that participating Trainers are only

allowed to pick one Pokémon for each event!

DAWN: Nice!

DANIEL: And it just so happens that a Pokéathlon is being held

today right here in Camellia Town!

BROCK: Of course! This must be the first Pokéathlon ever to be

held in Sinnoh, right?

DANIEL: You mean you've heard of the Pokéathlon before?

ASH: Sure! See, we spent lots of time traveling through Johto.

DAWN: So the first event is a Disc Catch, followed by a

halftime show instead of a normal second event, and then

finishing up with a Hurdle Dash.

ASH: Wow, a Hurdle Dash? Man! That event sounds cool!

DAWN: The whole day sounds cool!

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

BROCK: The event today is a qualifying match, and the winner

gets to enter the regional competition!

ASH: That settles that!

Guess you know what this means, right, Pikachu?

PIKACHU: [EXCITED]

DANIEL: Look! No non-scientist could ever defeat me in a

million years! I know just who's going to win!

BROCK: Looks like registration's over there!

ASH: What about you, Dawn?

DAWN: Our contest is coming up,

so I think I'll just sit this one out!

ASH: Got it!

DANIEL: I'm so sure we're going to lose to a Pokémon who's been

trained "by feeling"! Right, Snorlax?

SNORLAX: [TIRED]

ASH: It looks to me like your

Snorlax is feeling a little worn out.

DANIEL: What? That's not even possible!

ASH: Come on, Daniel. You're a Trainer, too, so I know you

should be able to tell! It looks to me like Snorlax might be a

little worn out from training so hard.

SNORLAX: [TIRED]

TRAINERS, GRUMPIG: [HAPPY]

DANIEL: I can't believe it!

DANIEL: Snorlax's energy is way below normal!

DANIEL: And its exhaustion composite has increased by

percent as well! Hey! How did that kid know Snorlax was tired

without using a computer or sensors to monitor it?

JAMES: Begging your pardon, kind sir!

MEOWTH: I'd say you've got quite the tuckered

Pokémon on your hands!

JAMES: I heartily recommend you bring it to our Pokémon spa

salon for a lovely and invigorating scientific massage!

DANIEL: A scientific...massage?

JAMES: Excellent auditory assimilation! It's the most

researched massage one can get!

MEOWTH: We're going to woo you with science!

JAMES: A customer, Massage Master!

JESSIE: When it comes to massage art, we're all thumbs!

DANIEL: My Snorlax is going to compete in the third-round

hurdle race today! So, you think you can have it

up to speed by that time?

JESSIE: Zoom zoom!

JESSIE: Our Massage Masterdigit Mark Two employs the scientific

method to examine and best treat Pokémon pooped-outness!

SNORLAX: [RELAXED]

MEOWTH: Those flying fingers will make your

Snorlax a record-breaker!

DANIEL: Oh really? Then let's go!

JAMES: Ho ho! We'll give a scientific ring when Snorlax is

chock full of zing!

JAMES, MEOWTH: You're both in good hands with our hands!

JESSIE: It's this kind of scientific Pokémon roundup

that's sure to round us up a big promotion from the Boss!

JAMES, MEOWTH: Then we'll cut our loss!

MEOWTH: What do you know! Pikachu and its Twerp!

JAMES: I'd hazard that they're both competing, too.

MEOWTH: I've got an idea! Dig it!

MEOWTH: Nice Pikachu! ASH, PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

JAMES: Whee! And raised with tons of TLC.

ASH: Hey, thanks, you guys!

JAMES: Say, though Pikachu seems healthy, excessive practice

could cause a train drain!

MEOWTH: But a massage might be just the ticket to feeling

tippy-tops! And we're offering grand-opening price breaks!

JAMES: You'll both be in the pink for not much green!

ASH: Whoa! You really think?

It sounds great! Pikachu, what do you say?

PIKACHU: [PAINED] / [SHEEPISH]

ASH: See, the thing is we're going to compete in the Hurdle

Dash together this afternoon, so will you be finished in time?

MEOWTH: Piece of cake!

There's other clients hurdling along with you!

JAMES: You'll be all patched up and ready to

heave-ho before the show!

PIKACHU: [SURPRISED]

EMCEE: It's time for the first fabulous Camellia Pokéathlon to

get under way!

EMCEE: Now for our first event it's the Disc Catch!

EMCEE: At this time, I will ask all competitors to gather in the

middle of the field so we can begin!

DAWN: Hey, Brock? I'm not exactly sure what a Disc Catch

is, are you?

BROCK: It's where a Trainer uses a seesaw to launch his Pokémon

into the air, where it then catches incoming discs!

BROCK: It tests a Pokémon's reflexes in its jumping ability,

not to mention the power of the relationship with its Trainer.

DANIEL: We both know my Hitmonlee has the advantage!

If it's high jumping, we're talking number one!

ASH: To tell you the truth,

I think my Monferno's got you beat, hands down!

MONFERNO: [CHEERING]

DANIEL: You can try all you want,

but you can't defeat real science!

ASH: You've never been in a battle until you've

battled with me!

DANIEL: Oh, that's real scientific!

COUNTDOWN: Three, two, one!

ASH: All right!

DANIEL: Here we go!

MEDICHAM: [FOCUSED]

HITMONLEE: [FOCUSED]

NUZLEAF, MEDICHAM, GRUMPIG: [FOCUSED]

MONFERNO: [EXERTION]

HITMONLEE: [EXERTION]

NUZLEAF, MEDICHAM: [EXERTION]

DROWZEE, WEAVILE: [EXERTION]

MONFERNO: [EXERTION]

HITMONLEE: [EXERTION]

DAWN,BROCK: Wow! Yeah!

EMCEE: And the big winner of the Disc Catch is... Say!

It's a tie! It's a tie between Ash and Daniel, who lead the

Pokéathlon with points each!

ASH: Monferno! You were great!

MONFERNO: [PLEASED]

DANIEL: Too impressive!

EMCEE: Ladies and gentlemen! Replacing our second event!

EMCEE: For your enjoyment, this very special performance

exhibition! So give it up for last year's champion, Spoink!

COUNTDOWN: Ready, set, go!

SPOINK: [EXERTION]

DAWN: Something tells me that

Spoink doesn't need that trampoline.

BROCK: Hold on!

BROCK: I don't see Ash down there!

DAWN: But the Hurdle Dash is going to get started now!

ASH: I'd better move it and get Pikachu back to the arena, fast!

DANIEL: Why are you here?

ASH: My Pikachu is getting a massage in there, get it?

DANIEL: That's strange. Snorlax, too!

ASH: That is weird.

DANIEL: Hey! What is that thing?

ASH: I know!

ASH: It's Team Rocket!

PIKACHU: [STRUGGLING]

ASH: Pikachu!

DANIEL: Snorlax!

SNORLAX: [SURPRISED]

ASH: All right! Hold it!

DANIEL: What in the world?

JESSIE: Out of this world, that's how we roll!

JAMES: Being grounded can take its toll!

JESSIE: On the wind!

JAMES: Past the stars!

MEOWTH: Heart and soul!

JESSIE: Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace!

JAMES: Dashing all hope, putting fear in its place!

JESSIE: Magic fingers bring calming and joy.

JAMES: But not to a certain Twerpish boy.

- JESSIE: Jessie! - JAMES: And James!

MEOWTH: Meowth's the name!

JESSIE: You do-gooders sure are uptight!

JAMES: We're Team Rocket!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Want to fight?

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

MIME JR.: [MIMICKING]

DANIEL: Team Rocket?

ASH: Yeah, they're a bunch of crooks that try to steal other

people's Pokémon!

MEOWTH: We succeed, too!

JAMES: I didn't know we had brakes!

JESSIE: Balloons don't have brakes!

MEOWTH: Maybe there's a recall!

MEOWTH: Snorlax is packing too many pounds!

JESSIE: This wouldn't have been necessary if you'd packed it in

its Poké Ball!

JAMES: Hindsight is overrated as a useful tool.

JESSIE: Well, I'm no fool! Yanmega, help us cut and run!

YANMEGA: [APPEARING]

JESSIE: With Pikachu in our possession, Snorlax is nothing

but ballast! So cut loose that loser with Steel Wing!

YANMEGA: [STEEL WING ATTACK]

JESSIE: Excellent! Return!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: And so, off we go! Into a sky of blue,

sporting Pikachu!

DANIEL: Snorlax! Are you right!

SNORLAX: [HAPPY]

ASH: All right, Staraptor, I choose you!

STARAPTOR: [APPEARING]

ASH: Go and save Pikachu, okay?

STARAPTOR: [AFFIRMATIVE]

JESSIE: Heads up! It appears that the Twerp

is relying on air support!

STARAPTOR: [EXERTION]

MEOWTH: Watch the hands!

MEOWTH: When it comes to power punching, these paws will deck a

Pokémon in a Sinnoh minute!

STARAPTOR: [SHOCKED]

MEOWTH: And a left, and a right, and a fight, fight, fight!

STARAPTOR: [IMPACT]

MEOWTH: Left-right-left-right-left!

MEOWTH: One-two-one-two-one!

MEOWTH: Two-one-two-one-two!

STARAPTOR: [STUNNED]

ASH: Staraptor, return!

JESSIE: Wow, Meowth, you're a champ!

MEOWTH: No rope-a-doping with our heavyweight!

JAMES: What fists! It's all in the robotic wrists!

JAMES: Hey! Round over!

DANIEL: Nice bounce! Again!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

JESSIE: That couldn't be!

SNORLAX: [GREETING]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: It is!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: Rematch!

MEOWTH: Round two!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION] PIKACHU: [SCARED]

ASH: Pikachu!

ASH: I won't get to where Pikachu's going to land on time!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

PIKACHU: [SCARED]

PIKACHU: [GRATEFUL]

SNORLAX: [PLEASED]

JAMES: No! Pikachu's been saved by a stomach!

JESSIE: I thought you'd been saved by half a brain!

MEOWTH: Cut it out! This is a reality show!

JESSIE, JAMES, MEOWTH: We're blasting off again!

WOBBUFFET: [AFFIRMATIVE]

DANIEL: Snorlax, you were amazing!

ASH: Daniel! Thanks a lot! You saved Pikachu from Team Rocket!

PIKACHU: [GRATEFUL]

DANIEL: Well, if I'm going to beat you fair and square,

I've got to use science all the way down the line!

EMCEE: Participants will please report to the track immediately,

as our third event, the Hurdle Dash, is about to begin!

DANIEL: Uh-oh! We'd better get moving, quick!

ASH: Right!

EMCEE: Attention, competitors!

The Hurdle Dash will begin in exactly one minute!

BROCK: Wow, I wonder where Ash and Daniel could be?

DAWN: Yeah, and after they both did so well by ending up tying

for the first round!

ASH: Hey! Wait for us!

BROCK: That sounded like Ash!

DAWN: Look! Over there!

ASH: Sorry! See, we got hung up!

DANIEL: But we're all ready to go now!

- ATTENDANT: Then hurry! - DANIEL: Right!

ASH: What's that?

DANIEL: It syncs you up with your Pokémon!

DANIEL: It uses the same principles as the device I use

in my training!

EMCEE: Now that each Trainer has received their devices,

I will now explain how they're used!

EMCEE: You will notice that each of your Pokémon has been

equipped with a video camera.

EMCEE: The image from that camera will be visible to the

Trainer using the goggles they've just been given!

EMCEE: As each Pokémon runs, hurdles will suddenly appear on

the track! However, these hurdles will be visible to the

Trainers before their Pokémon.

At the appropriate time, the Trainers will jump, which then

transmits a signal to their Pokémon, signaling them to jump!

Success in the third-round

Hurdle Dash will depend on the perfect timing and

execution of those jumps!

DAWN: Here we go!

BROCK: Yeah! I think we both know who's going to win this!

DANIEL: Okay, let's do this fair and square!

ASH: You've got it!

EMCEE: Now, everybody ready to go? All right, countdown!

COUNTDOWN: Three, two, one!

PIKACHU: [EXERTION] SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

ABRA: [EXERTION]

GLACEON: [EXERTION]

ASH: There's one!

PIKACHU: [EXERTION]

DANIEL: Now!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

GLACEON, STUNKY, MAGBY, ABRA, MACHOKE, LUXIO: [EXERTION]

ABRA, MACHOKE, LUXIO: [EXERTION]

PIKACHU, SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

MACHOKE: [EXERTION]

BROCK: Pikachu and Snorlax are neck and neck!

DAWN: Run, Pikachu! Go, Ash, do it!

PIPLUP: [CHEERING]

PIKACHU, SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

ASH: Come on, Pikachu!

PIKACHU: [EXERTION]

DANIEL: Snorlax! Almost!

SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

PIKACHU, SNORLAX: [EXERTION]

BROCK: Whoa! All right, who won?

EMCEE: Upon careful review.

EMCEE: Our judges have determined that Snorlax's belly

edged in first! And that makes the winners of the Camellia

Pokéathlon Daniel and Snorlax!

DANIEL, SNORLAX: [DELIGHTED]

ASH: Congratulations, Daniel!

DANIEL: Hey, Ash!

ASH: That was awesome! From now on, I'm going to have to pay

lots more attention to your training style!

DANIEL: Well, actually...to be totally honest, I realize I

shouldn't rely that much on science! I've got to learn how

to understand my Pokémon's feelings as well!

ASH: Yeah! And you'll be great at it, too!

PIKACHU: [HAPPY]

ASH: Good luck in the Johto Pokéathlon! I'm rooting for you!

DANIEL: Thanks, and I'll be rooting for you in

the Sinnoh League!

DAWN: You know, I think those two are buddies now!

BROCK: Yeah! Their training styles may be different,

but their love of Pokémon goes beyond those differences!

Your contest is coming soon!

DAWN: And I can hardly wait! What do you say, Piplup?

PIPLUP: [EXCITED]

NARRATOR: Although unsuccessful at winning the Pokéathlon,

Ash was a huge success at making a new friend! And now it's on to

Daybreak Town, where Dawn's fifth contest ribbon hangs in

the balance. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned!